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ὑποκάθ-ημαι , Ion. ὑποκαθ-κάτημαι , prop. pf. of ὑποκαθέζομαι,
A.to be seated down in a place, station oneself there, “ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ πόλι” Hdt.7.27.
2. sit below, τινι Philostr.VA3.16; to be placed under, ὄμμα ὑ. τῇ ὀφρύϊ ib.8.
II. lie in ambush, Str.15.1.42: metaph., Philostr.VA7.14; ὑποκαθήμενον ὁρᾶν to have an insidious look, Id.Im.2.18; but also ἡ -καθημένη ἀοριστία the fundamental indeterminacy, Carneisc.Herc.1027.14.
2. c. acc. pers., lie in wait for, “τὸν βάρβαρον” Hdt.8.40, cf. Philostr.VS2.2, Her.2.11: metaph., “φθόνος ὑ. τινά” Id.VS2.26.3: abs., lurk, Plu.2.556b: c. dat., “ὑποκαθημένης αὐτῷ τῆς ὀργῆς” Plb.4.29.7.
III. sit idle, D.H.11.37.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.40
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.27
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.29.7
    • Strabo, Geography, 15.1.42
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 11.37
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 3.16
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 7.14
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 8
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 2.2
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 2.26.3
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